Plant Breeding and Genetics

The scientists, breeders and institution builders who developed new crop varieties and cultivars through selection, hybridization and the applied genetics of crop plants, spanning classical Mendelian and pure-line breeding, the wheat, rice and maize breeding programs of the Green Revolution, hybrid seed development, plant genetic resources and germplasm conservation, and the modern molecular mapping and gene-identification work that supports variety development. Distinct from Plant Biotechnology, gathered separately for figures whose defining work is a genetic engineering, transformation or gene-editing technique rather than a bred variety itself, and from Botany and Plant Physiology, gathered for figures studying how a plant works rather than developing a named crop variety.